Curb Gutter Pan

Curb and gutter is a type of curb with a gutter pan which is commonly referred to on all blueprints as curb and gutter.

Curb gutter pan. Curb and gutter is the first part of the parking lot to be installed and is done to a strict tolerance. Usually curb and gutter are constructed together at a site. Durable and effective concrete formations. The drainage patterns in most parking lots are engineered using the gutter pans of the curb and gutter as flow lines.

Curb is a short wall installed to hold the pavement from the sides and act as a barrier between yard and street. Curb and gutter types construction and advantages. In most cases the height of the curb ramp across the gutter pan will be minimal two inches or less but the side slopes of this extension should be tapered out at a minimum slope of three horizontal to one vertical. Concrete can be placed much more precisely than asphalt can giving even fairly flat lots the ability to drain.

It is abutted with a gutter which is a flat concrete slab that drains out water away from the yard. Prowag allows a maximum change in grade of 13 3 between the bottom of a curb ramp and the gutter pan. They keep rain and melting snow on the street and flowing toward sewers and collection points and define allowable driving surfaces to better protect pedestrians especially children. This is determined by allowing a 8 33 ramp slope and a 5 gutter counter slope.